ExtraCare signs up to The Charity Shop Gift Card
The ExtraCare Charitable Trust’s 36 charity shops will now be accepting The Charity Shop Gift Card — the only nationally accepted, multi-retailer gift card that can be spent exclusively in charity shops.
The Charity Shop Gift Card is a not-for-profit that has been developed and launched in association with the Charity Retail Association. ExtraCare is now selling and accepting the card in its shops, which help support better lives for older people across England. The scheme will support the growing second-hand revolution, which is helping to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill.
The Charity Retail Association has 450 members with 9,000 shops, and together they are already diverting over 300,000 tonnes of textiles away from landfill and contributing over £300million to help fund the work of their parent charities.
As a social enterprise, a minimum of 65% of the gift card scheme’s surplus will go towards funding charity gift cards for good causes to donate to the communities they are supporting.
The Charity Retail Association has 450 members with 9,000 shops, and together they are already diverting over 300,000 tonnes of textiles away from landfill and contributing over £300million to help fund the work of their parent charities.
As a social enterprise, a minimum of 65% of the gift card scheme’s surplus will go towards funding charity gift cards for good causes to donate to the communities they are supporting.
The gift cards themselves are recyclable and compostable and are available from participating charities and at supermarkets and other major high street retailers. They can be purchased as e-vouchers from www.thecharityshopgiftcard.co.uk.
The Charity Shop Gift Card is a member of Social Enterprise UK, and the Gift Card and Voucher Association.
Alison Whittingham, ExtraCare’s Head of Retail commented: “We are delighted to accept the Charity Shop Gift Card. With this great initiative we hope to introduce more customers to our 36 charity shops and others across the country.”
Lee Fellows, Co-founder of The Charity Shop Gift Card, said: “Every purchase of this first-of-its-kind sustainable shopping gift card is a donation to charity and an opportunity for established charity shoppers to give the gift of thrift and encourage their family and friends to join the second-hand revolution.”
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